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Can I nominate my pet hate - the pavement surface on the north side of Euston Road between Euston and Saint Pancras is appalling. Anyone pulling a suitcase on rollers is in for a wrist jarring trip if not a literal trip as a result of the tree roots raising the paving slabs. is there any worse pavement in London. Why are there not a cadre of claims management company representatives there ready to offer advice about suing the council.( apologies - grumpy head on today).
This is a superb sequence of posts, the attention to detail is outstanding - and never boring. More please. And the Euston Tap is now near the top of my to-do list.
I recently mentioned the cafe in the crypt of St Marylebone Church.
The Friends Meeting House (Quakers) opposite also has a nice cafeteria restaurant in the basement. I used to go there on Tuesdays on my way to the 2.30pm weekly free film shows at Gordon Square's Birkbeck cinema. There's a film today but I have stopped going!.
the website for the Euston Tap claims that it's the only cider bar in London. but there's also Chimes in Pimlico, a good range of ciders and perry, also very good food. I first discovered it when I worked in the area in the early 90s, so it's well established, and I still go there occasionally.
I think it's part of the architectural brief for Premier Inns to be ghastly.

By the way, I was able to visit the St Pancras Hotel during Open House in 2011. So if you want to see the insides post restoration, here's some pics.
I have never liked St Pancras station. It is cold and draughty and the bare brick walls inside look as if they ran out of money to plaster or paint them.
Eurostar should have stayed at Waterloo.
I do however like the hotel at the front.
I am not certain about the demolition of the facilities at King's Cross, I would have thought that if passenger numbers are up there would be a demand for more facilities and not an open yard exposed to the elements.
I am still enjoying this series. A couple of snippets from my own memories of KX, others may add or correct. The old KX Thameslink station was called Kings Cross Metropolitan when it was used in the 50s and 60s by widened lines trains from the GN suburban lines to Moorgate. An odd name, because it was no longer used by Met trains.

And the circulating area between the new (1941) met platforms was originally mainly filled by a single-track turnback line. So even less space for crowds then. (Removed in the 80s I think).
A superb series DG, you're excelling yourself.
Have travelled these routes all my life but you've still pointed out a few things I've missed. Thanks!
@John
They have already built the "more facilities at Kings Cross" - that's what's been put into the space between KX and St Pancras. It made sense to do that before demolishing the old cramped ones.

DG - it's a long trek ahead of you for tomorrow's session: the second longest gap between stations in Z1 (after the Drain). Indeed on some measures the mid-point of the section, at Mount Pleasant, is the furthest point in Central London from a tube station. (Other cadidates are the Albert Memorial and the Albert Bridge

The old bay platform at Kings Cross Circle line station is the original route of the eastbound track: the present eastbound tunnel was originally built at the same time as St Pancras mainline station above , maybe future-proofing for a possible connection to Euston?) and was used to provide an eastbound connection from the met west of Kings Cross to the Widened Lines in 1926, allowing trains terminating at Moorgate to do so without having to cross the main Circle line tracks on the flat outside that station. The connection was little used, and was removed in 1935
DG: Thanks for this series. As I used to live "up North" when I was young, this bit of London is the first bit I ever saw and those weird and wonderful disused platforms and the City Widened Lines created a long-standing interest in the history of the LU's tracks and stations (not trains though, I find them dull).

It's a shame you will have to stop "Disappearing down the tube hole on Farringdon street" (to quote Underworld's "Dirty Epic") as you won't get to the Aldersgate [Street], Moorgate Street, and Bishopsgate...
In reply to the anonymous comment about the new facilities at King's Cross, I am aware of these, but that is sort of replacing what has been demolished, not extra facilities. They are also aimed more at departing passengers. I think arriving passengers will more or less walk straight out into an open yard.
The restaurant at 6 St Chad's Place has a wall-sized photo of the old Kings Cross Thameslink platforms, should you need a reminder of what it looks like.










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